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About the SIG: The Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents SIG is comprised of an interdisciplinary group focused on promoting advocacy, education, policies, programs, and research about pain in children. The SIG started as a working group charged with developing a policy statement on acute pain in children. This APS Task Force on Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents was chaired by Dr. Gary Walco who also became the first chairperson of the SIG. Other previous SIG chairs have included Drs. Jolene Bean-Lijewski and Steven Weisman. The SIG has been active in developing position statements, sharing research findings at APS annual meetings, holding pediatric pain education days, and serving on APS committees and task forces.
Position Statements on Pain in Children:
Pediatric Chronic Pain (http://www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/pediatric.htm)
Joint AAP/APS statement: The Assessment and Management of Acute Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents at http://www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/pediatric2.htm and http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;108/3/793
Pediatric Chronic Pain Programs in the U.S.:
Click here for a list of dedicated pediatric chronic pain programs: Pain Clinic List (pdf)
Pediatric Chronic Pain Programs in Canada
(http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/PainClinics_List.pdf)
Next Meeting:
The Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents SIG meeting is scheduled at APS (in Austin) on Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
We will discuss the topic "Challenging cases in pediatric pain: Implications for informing research and practice." This will involve case presentations and panel discussion concerning challenging cases in pediatric pain. The intent is to have members of the SIG discuss clinical challenges that they have encountered in their practice (in the context of a brief case presentation from the perspective of their discipline and setting of care), and to have a discussion panel stimulate conversation concerning how these cases can inform and lead to novel research in pediatric pain as well as to novel practice developments.
If you are attending APS and are interested in participating in this event, please forward a 1/2 page case description to tonya.palermo@seattlechildrens.org by April 15, 2011.
Contact the APS national office at list@ampainsoc.org.
